One of Britain's leading composers and educators of his day, Stanford considered chamber music an essential representation of 'absolute music'. His mastery of extended instrumental...continue...
Recording information: Champs Hill, West Sussex, UK (03/24/2014-03/26/2014)....continue...

These three pairs of sublime choral settings span well over 350 years. The earliest is Allegriís Miserere, a work considered so precious it was kept...continue...
Recording information: Tonbridge School Chapel, Tonbridge, Kent, UK (02/21/2014-02/23/2014)....continue...

Highly respected as an educator, Jacques Hétu was also one of the most frequently performed of all contemporary Canadian composers. His earlier hallmarks of polytonality...continue...
Recording information: Multimedia Music Room, Schulich School of Music, McGill (05/06/2012-05/09/2012)....continue...

"Nuevo" is something of a near-hallucinatory journey in sound. A bawdy song from Mazatlan, a romantic standard of the 60's, "space-age bachelor pad music" of...continue...
This album was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Classical

When Arnold Cooke died in 2005 at the age of ninety-eight, he was the last survivor of a great generation of British composers that included...continue...
Recording information: Music Hall of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Lo (2005-10-02&2005-10-09&2005-)....continue...

Ursula Mamlok lived for many years in New York before returning to Berlin, the city of her birth, in her eighties. Featuring a conspectus of...continue...
Recording information: Kammermusiksaal der Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Germ (02/01/2013)....continue...

Drawing on the adventures of Byron's Childe Harold and the composer's own Italian experiences as a Prix de Rome winner, Harold en Italie was intended...continue...
Recording information: Auditorium de Lyon, France (10/24/2013/10/26/2013)....continue...

Quite possibly the most melodically gifted composer to have ever lived, Franz Schubert's uniqueness extends as well to his individual works notoriety, some of which...continue...
Recording information: Ecole Nationale de Musique - Aulnay-sous-bois, France (08/02/1999-08/06/1999)....continue...

Founded by flutist Marya Martin in 1984, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival (BCMF) is one of the leading chamber music festivals in the US. This...continue...
Recording information: Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, Bridgehampton, New Y (07/28/2013-08/18/2013)....continue...

Since studying at Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music with John White, Martin Outram has enjoyed a wide-ranging career as quartet player, soloist,...continue...
Recording information: Wyastone Concert Hall (11/16/2012-11/18/2012)....continue...

The soundtrack to Maleficent, a reimagining of Disney's Sleeping Beauty from the villain's perspective, puts the focus on James Newton Howard's foreboding yet witty score. Stormy brass and percussion ...continue...

These two Quintets from Vaughan Williams' formative years reveal a young creative artist attempting to establish his own personal musical language....continue...
Recording information: Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, England (07/02/2013-07/04/2013)....continue...

Featuring a solo viola, Ross Harris's Fourth Symphony is a tribute to and a portrait of the New Zealand poet and songwriter Mahinarangi Tocker. Harris's...continue...
Recording information: Auckland Town Hall, New Zealand....continue...

This program documents almost four decades of Ernst Toch's artistic development. His romantic First Violin Sonata marks the end of the composer's early period. The...continue...
Recording information: Siemens Villa, Berlin, Germany (06/25/2012-06/29/2012)....continue...

This new disc offers three works written/premiered in the year 1919. Barbara Buntrock is a highly decorated viola player, awarded with many first prizes in...continue...
Recording information: Festsaal Fürstenhaus, Weimar, Germany (05/2013-06/2013)....continue...

A program of concertante works for various instruments. Manuel de Sica's (b. 1949) music is marked by eclecticism and immediate appeal. The Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini...continue...
Recording information: Centro di Produzione Musicale della Filarmonica Toscani (05/27/2013/05/28/2013)....continue...

Violist Geraldine Walter is a member of the Takács String Quartet and was principal violist of the San Francisco Symphony for 29 years....continue...
Recording information: Wyastone Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth, Unite (08/06/2012-08/10/2012)....continue...